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== Profit from harvested foreskins ==
Foreskins are sold to pharmaceutical companies for stem-cell research, the creation of synthetic [[skin]], and the creation of consumer products. Since the 1980s, private hospitals have been involved in the business of supplying discarded foreskins to private bio-research laboratories and pharmaceutical companies who require human flesh as raw research material.<ref name="hodges1997" /> They also supply foreskins to transnational corporations. Dr. Tania Phillips, professor of dermatology at {{UNI|Boston University|BU}} [http://www.bumc.bu.edu/ School of Medicine], insisting foreskin gathering and cultivating is scientifically and technologically "very promising." <ref>Ronald Rosenberg. 19 October 1992: 22-23.</ref>
=== Corporate benefactors ===
* [[Advanced Tissue Sciences]] (ATS) <ref>Forget pork bellies, now it's foreskins. Manson B. ''San Diego Reader'' (May 4, 1995): 12, 14 passim.</ref>
* [[Organogenesis]]<ref>New skin twin life- and look-save. Brewer S. ''Longevity'' (September 1992): 18.</ref>
* BioSurface Technology<ref>Companies see $1.5b market in replacement [[skin ]] products. Rosenberg R. ''Boston Globe'' (October 19, 1992): 22-23.</ref>
* Genzyme
* Ortec International